World | Haiti Report: Haiti Judge Will Free Americans Baptist missionaries being held on kidnapping charges By John Johnson Posted Feb 10, 2010 5:51 PM CST Copied In this file photo, Laura Silsby, 40, center, and Charisa Coulter, 24, left, both of Meridian, Idaho, are escorted out of a court building in Port-au-Prince on Feb. 4. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) A judge in Haiti has decided to release the 10 Americans being held on kidnapping charges, a judicial source tells Reuters. The Americans, accused of trying to spirit 33 Haitian children out of the country after the earthquake, could go free as early as tomorrow. They've been in jail since being nabbed at the border with the kids on Jan. 29. "One thing an investigating judge seeks in a criminal investigation is criminal intentions on the part of the people involved, and there is nothing that shows that criminal intention on the part of the Americans," the source said. Read These Next Gavin Newsom has filed a massive lawsuit against Fox News. New York Times ranks the best movies of the 21st century. Supreme Court is a yes on age checks for porn sites. Supreme Court gives Trump big win on national injunctions. Report an error